NRK 2023/1042 Service contract, subscription procurements

Description

NRK hereby invites tenderers to an open tender contest with the aim of entering into a continuing service contract with a tenderer for the delivery of subscription procurement services for newspapers and periodicals. Lot 1: About the service NRK currently has a contract with approx. 60 issuers of newspapers, trade periodicals (electronic back issues) from all over the world. The subscriptions that are procured for these contracts are administered for NRK via a subscription procurer, which in addition to administering subscriptions, has also recently taken over responsibility for negotiating prices and terms with the issuers. NRK Servicetorget, which comes under NRK's Organisation Division, is the contract owner and has general responsibility for the group newspapers. NRK Research Centre is responsible for other subscriptions. See the overview in 'Annex 1 of Appendix 6 - Price Appendix'. The subscription procurer has regular contact and cooperates with a group of administrative representatives for each division in NRK, which deals with needs testing and continual changes between the divisions, for the group newspapers. NRK has a unilateral right to order other products and services that can be naturally defined under the scope of the contract on the same terms and within an equivalent price level as that in this contract with annexes. The contract period The contract will be valid for 3 (three) years calculated from the last signing date. The contract will then be renewed automatically for 1 (one) year at a time, unless 3 (three) months notice is given by the contracting authority before the renewal date. Estimated value of the contract The contract value is estimated to be approx. NOK 11 - NOK 12 million a year. There can be variations. The estimated value is not binding for NRK. Upper limit for the contract. NRK reserves the right to set a maximum limit for the use of the contract. This is set to NOK 150 million excluding VAT.